Legends Of El Salvador – La Sihuanaba
Comments OffThis legend is about a woman with long tangled hair covering her face, with a slim body and long nails and with enormous breasts that hung almost to the ground. La Sihuanaba appears on roads, in rivers and ravines to single and drunken men wandering around late at night. A legend used as a warning. [...]
El Salvador: body of missing activist found with signs of torture
Comments OffOn July 8, DNA tests confirmed that a body found in a well in Cabañas department, El Salvador, on June 30 is that of prominent community activist Gustavo Marcelo Rivera. The body was found by community members who had organized a search for Rivera, missing since June 18. Witnesses reported that the body exhibited signs [...]
El Salvador Against Honduras Conflict
Comments OffThe Honduras conflict needs a speedy solution but without keeping coupists in power until elections, emphasized Salvadorian Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez. A rapid solution without keeping the de facto President Roberto Micheletti in the government until elections (scheduled for next November), noted the diplomatic cited Tuesday by the local newspaper La Prensa Grafica. If Micheletti [...]
Gangs rule in El Salvador jails
“There are four ways our officers can get themselves killed,” says Major Gabriel Rodas, director of Ciudad Barrios prison in rural El Salvador. “First, if they receive money from the prisoners as part of a deal and then they don’t fulfil their side. Secondly, if they hit a prisoner. Thirdly, if they mistreat prisoners’ visitors. [...]
Four Archaeological Areas in El Salvador
There are four archaeological areas of interest to tourists visiting the country. The first is Joya de Ceren. It is a little pre-colombian Mayan farming village (Tower of the Ceren) buried for more than 1400 years under ten layers of volcanic ash after the eruption of the Laguna Caldero volcano around 600AD, and preserved. The excavations [...]
